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PROM Berlin till morning comca
now ol a reported communist
pluu (Identified mi "Protocol M")
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mid crlpplo Uie Industrial Ruhr.
(The Ruhr In Uio heart ul Western
Kuropciin Industry, much u Uio
Dotrult-Oliloiigii-l'llUibuigli trlunulo
la tlio heart ul American Industry.)
Tho plan 1 wild to have tlio lull
backing ul Uio Uumliilunii (Uio gcn
orul suit ol wurld communism) und
Uio I'omtiloto support ul Uio Movici
Union. It I suposcd to bo brought
about by iiiiim strikes in key in
dustries. Tlio "key position" III Uio plan l
jiultl Ul Inivc born assigned tu tlio
(Jeimiii) communist puny.
IT doesn't tcvin to bo Just a buugey
mint rumor. This morning Ucr
lln dispatches iwy "Uioro la no In
cllimtluii in either American or
British olllclnl quarters U) doubt Uio
authenticity ul the plan."
s Yot. will Und Uio details olriwliore
in Una newspaper lodiiy.
WASHINGTON dispatches UKluy
tell ul the reopening ul a war
time American alrllcld near Tripoli,
III NurUl Africa. Till Held Is to be
opened Willi Uio co-uporiilluil ul Uio
llrliudi.
WHY ll American mr base In
" North Alrlca?
The answer l brutally simple as
so nuuiy answers ore Ulrse duya.
It bud troublo break anywhere In
Uio crIUcnl Medllerruneun area
(which we have uken under our
wing under the Truninn Doctrine)
WE COULDNT CIKT T11KHK IN
TIME KROM HKKK.
WIS COUI.U OKT TIIKKK IN
TIME FROM TRIPOLI.
pitOM Cairo (Egypt) today Uiere
comes UiU development:
"Assad Dauber, chlel ol the prcse
section ol Uie Arab League (com
puted ol seven Arab countries In Uio
Middle Eoali told a newt conlorencc
today Uiat Uio League haa recom
mended Umt Arab natluiu) OCCUPY
ALL PALESTINE WITH REG
ULAR ARMIES when the British
too leavt.
HI ARMIES begin to move in
Palestine, what will Russia do7)
RSSAD DAOHER adds:
"The League will consider II an
UNFRIENDLY ACT II an Inter
national police force liiieaiiing Uio
military nn ol UNITED NA
TIONS) aliould bo acut to the Holy
Land before tho llrliiah leave." He
oticludaa: "TIM League council
WOUia IMILW wp w uirot
Itncy."
INDIA 8 delegation at Lake Succea
1 (UN headquarter i lella Uie
security council o( UN) Una morn
ing Uiat a lull scale war with
Pakistan may develop unles UN
lakea measure to hull Uie lighting
In Kashmir.
Prom Nanking, In China, cornea
word Uial resident of besieged (by
Uio communist i Mukden, In Man
churia, are HANOINO THEM
tiKLVEa to eacapa death by atnrva
llon. IN audi a world background we are
1 auuroachlim our 1948 Presidential
campaign. Our atUludo hu nearly
alwaya been (the gravely critical
campaign of 1800 wsji an exception)
thai a Presidential election la more
fun Uian a houseful ol monkeys.
We're probably In for a disop
polnlmcnt Uils time.
The necessity to govern our
actlniia by STATESMANSHIP AND
PATRIOTISM will be likely to spoil
our enjoyment,
NINE KILLED
PARENT, Clue., Jan. 15 Pi Ca
nadian National Railways olflclala
aald today Uiat nine person were
killed and 55 Injured In Uie wreck
age yesterday of two passenger
trains near Wykes In Uie frozen
Northland.
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Orvllle I,ce, left, wa Basel administration representative of Portland, ha been In town thl week to go
over final detail of the quitclaim deed to the municipal airport, formerly the naval air station, which
turn over to the city of Klamath Falls, the field and Installations valued In excess of 83.000,000. The
deed waa signed by Mayor Kd Ostendorf Wednesday morning. With Lee, are Ralph Macartney, center,
chairman of the airport commission, and Mayor Ostendorf,
Judge Holds
Decision In
Murder Case
A move to have the first degree
murder charge against llumer V.
I'ranklln dlamlased waa made and
promptly ruled out this morning In
a preliminary hearing for Franklin
held before Justice of the Peace J.
A. Mahoney In Juallee court. Judge
Mahoney haa the option of dismiss
Ing the charge, reducing It to a leas
er crime or turning the 54-year-old
ei-aallur over to the grand Jury,
but he reserved a decision until to
morrow. The homing amounted lo a legal
tug-uf-wur between Dlstrlcl At
torney Cinicucc A. Humble, repre
senting the prosecution, und Attor
neys U, 8. liulciillne and E. IS.
Drlscoll, remitted by the defendant.
Humble was determined lo reveal
aa llllle of Ills eaae aa possible and
still hold Kranklln to the first de
gree murder charge, while the de
fense lawyers were on what Humble
termed a "fishing expedition" to
find out how strong the prosecu
tion's case la.
Two Witnesses
The prosecution culled only two
witnesses. Htate Police Officer Toild
Knapp und Leslie (Swede) llurroun.
Knitpp's direct testimony dealt
only with a statement Kranklln
made January 3, when he admitted
alaymg Ills wife, 43-ycur-old Marie,
and Uie event at Uie Kranklln
rr . nee near Uie airport when Uie
woman's body was recovered from a
backyard grave.
While Knapp waa talking, Krank
lln broke In once as If to niako a
correction In the testimony, but was
hurriedly shushed by lialcnllnc.
Then, when Knapp wa handed
over fur cross-examination. Balcn
ttne began asking about various ar
ticles of possible evidence such as
Uie revolver Marie Franklin al
legedly waa killed with, blood
stained cloUilng, bullets and the
like winch were sent to the stale
police crime laboratory In Portland
for examination.
After some quesUoiis and answers
on that line went Into the records,
Humble put In an objection that the
craaa-examlnallon waa getUng far
away from the limits he art on
direct qucatloning. aaylng that the
defense waa Just on a "fishing ex
pedition to find an alibi for a
first degree murder."
On Humble second protest.
Judge Mahoney ruled against the
defenae questioning.
Officer Harroun appearanc aa
a wltneaa merely brought out that
he had previously been acquainted
with Mr. and Mrs. Kranklln and
IdenUfled the body of the woman
when 11 was taken from the grave.
Next, Knapp wa brought back to
say Uiat he observed a wound In Uie
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WTC Lowers
Lumber Price
ST. PAUL. Minn.. Jan. 15 lA't
Kred K. Weyerhaeuser, president of
Uie Weyerhaeuser Snlea company,
said In a statement that effective
today the company was reducing
price on several kinds of lumber
used In home building.
Weycrlineusor ald Uie reductions
were made wiUi a view "to do our
port In reducing Uie cost of building
and In checking Uie Inflationary
trends now Uircalcnlng our national
welfare."
He said I lie price cuts would aver
age 10 per cent al the mills an coast
Douglas fir, western hemlock and
coast red cedar lumber shipped
from Weyerhaeuser affiliated mills
to the retail lumber trade.
The reductions, he added, will be
maintained for the next 60 days
"and longer If we believe conditions
warrant."
City Gets Deed To $3,000,000
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American Officials Study
Cominform Plan To Smash
Marshall Plan In Europe
IIKItLIN, Jan. IS ll'j llrltlsh and
American officials atudled twlay a
reported (.'omlnform scheme Ident
ified aa "Protocol M" for amashlng
the Marshall plan and crippling the
Industrial Ruhr, The aull-com-munlst
German press, which pub
lished the alleged communist pro
gram, denounced It aa a proposed
"Putsch."
Details of the plan. Ural published
by the French-licensed newspaper
Der Kurler late yesterday, aald the
program, brought to light In West
ern Germany, would be coordinated
by the Cominform the communist
"Inlormatlon agency" set up by cum.
muulst leader of nine nations In
Poland last fall and supported
fully by the Soviet Union.
There seemed llllle Inclination In
either Hrltish or American official
quarter to doubt the authenticity
of the plan. One American official
aald publication of the plan alone
wa damaging enough lo the com
munist program In Germany.
An official BrlUsh atulemeiit UiU
morn I lie aald "the announcement of
Fir Brings
Record Bid
PORTLAND. Jan. 15 iA'y Demand
for lumber brought a new record bid
of 124.53 a thousand feet for Douglas
fir In bidding yesterday for Oregon
and California agency Umber.
The sale also wa Uie first In sev
eral years In which all tracts offer
ed were sold, resulting In aggregate
bids of 8618318.15 for the 77.8:u,0O0
board feet In 29 tract In nine West
ern Oregon counties. Bids were 11.6
per cent above appraisal value.
The previous high bid for O-C
timber was 82 on Ponderosa pine.
Averana atumDaae Drlcea bid were
1 18.67 a thousand, for Doutia fir.
816.74 for miliar pine ar.d 81281 for
Ponderosa pine.
The new record bid wo by Jones
Lumber corporation, Portland, for
676.000 feet hi Clackamas county.
Other successful bidders Included:
Douglas County Lumber company
and Roseburg Lumber company,
Rnseburg: Rex Clemens, Philomath:
Elk Lumber company and Southern
Oregon Sugar Pine corporation.
Medford: Gardiner Lumber com-
I pany. Gardiner: Oram Lumber cor
poration, Myrtle Creek: Spalding
and Son, Grants Pass; Willamette
Valley Lumber company, Dallas.
Ellis To Run For
Senate Presidency
8ALEM. Jan. 15 (tfv-State Sena
tor Rex Ellis, Pendleton mining and
Insurance man, announced hero to
day he would run for the presidency
of the 1949 senate.
The only other announced candi
date Is Senator Angus Olbson.
Junction City, although Senator
William E. Walsh. Coos Bay. has
Indicated he would run.
Ellis has represented Morrow, :
Umatilla and Union counties In the i
upper house continuously since
1037, being one of the veteran mem-1
bers.
He ran for congress In 1M0, has
lived In Pendleton since 1919. and
has been active In republican party
affairs.
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the Cominform plan came from
Oernian source and we have no
reason to doubt Its authenticity."
No Comment
A spokesman at tho headquarters
of the cocimunlst-conlrolled Soviet
sponsored soclallat unity party In
lierlln, described the plan as "non
sense" but added Uiat he couldn't
say anything more about It Im
mediately. "Protocol M," as published by
anU-communlai newspupers In Ber
lin today, sets out the operational
procedure for creating mass strikes
In transport and metal Industries ol
Western Germany "to break the
monopolistic-capitalistic attack of
Uie so-called Marshall plan."
The Protocol was quoted as de
claring that the Cominform head
quarter In Belgrade would coordi
nate the effort of the German com
munist party with the fight In all
European countriee and added that
"Uie home of socialism union, can
and will support thf light against
the monopolistic-capitalistic power
with all and every mean."
"In conjunction with the entire
working class of all European coun
tries, Uie Oerman working class will,
In perserverlng batUe for key post
Uons of producUon, take over the
power," the plan wa quoted as stal
ing. "It Is nut a matter of ministers'
posts but of jumping eff places for
ih final freeing of Uie proletariat
of Uie world."
The Oerman party was reportedly
given Uie "key position'' In this
fight to carry out Uie struggle for
the "European production center in
Uie Ruhr."
Tidelands
Ruling Asked
WASHINGTON, NJarii " 16 (Pt ' w
President Truman wa asked today
by a Texas delesaUon to aupport
leglslaUon recognizing state owner
ship of submerged or ttdal lands
within their boundaries.
Senator Connally (D-Tex.) and
Attorney General Price Daniel of
Uiat state renewed Uie controversy
over the tidewater lands at a White
House conference.
LeglslaUon. they said, will be
sought at this session of congress to
replace a measure vetoed by Presi
dent Truman. Uie latter acted prior
to a supreme court ruling last year
that Uie federal government has
paramount rights over oil-beating
tidelands on Uie California coast.
The court's decision, Uie Texans
said, specifically omitted any hold
ing Uiat the government had own
ership of the lands extending three
miles seaward from the low-tide
mark.
The proposed legislation would
confirm state ownership of sub
merged lands "subject to all neces
sary paramount powers" of the fed
eral government In such matters as
national defense and navigation.
Blast Tears Hole
In Ship At Pier
HOBOKEN. N. J., Jan. 15 fypi A
ship Ued up at pier 2 of the Todd
shipyards was shaken today by an
explosion that ripped a 40 to 50 foot
hole amidships, Police Sergeant Ed
gar Scott said.
Chief Bonln said eight companies
were sent to the scene.
There were no Immediate reports
ot any casualties.
Todd shipyards In New York said
the blast occurred on the Elks Hills,
a large ocean-going tanker under
repairs In drydock. The company
said the fire was under control.
Late Spud Bulletin
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 (AP
USDA) Potatoes: 15 broken. 13
unbroken can on track; arrivals
Calif. 4, Nevada 1, Idaho 1, Oregon
1: market slightly weaker; Klamath
Russets No. 1-A $4.70-75.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (AP
USDA) Potatoes: 19 broken, 43
unbroken cars on track; arrivals
Calif. 8. Idaho 13, Utah 1; 7 cars ar
rived by truck; market slightly
weaker; no sale reported. .
Bondits Mistake
Car; Arrested
PORTLAND, Jan. 16 (PI Two
young gunmen thought a sheriff's
car sounded like a taxi, and hat
was a mistake.
Deputies Ralph Benton and L.
Johnson drove up to a tavern at
Hillsdale, looking tor two men re
ported to have robbed cab driver
Sum Soter a short time earlier. As
they parked, two men answering
thr descriptions of the wanted men
came out.
The deputies reported that after
they disarmed the men, who gave
the names John Clyde Mitchell, 18,
and Floyd Robert Barnes. 18, tho
prisoners said they had called a cab,
planning to rob the driver, and
thought Uie car parking at the tav
ern waa their cab.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY,
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Pel Stars Honored
Two outstanding player of the 1947 Pelican
football team were honored last night when ttwy
receired award voted them by their Klamath
L'nlon high achoot teammate. Coach Ed Ryan
made the preaentaUon during the Lions club
gridiron banquet at the WMard. The top picture
how Lester Foster, senior guard, getUng hi
trophy a "outstanding lineman" of Uie squad
from Ryan, and the latter I Tommy Edwards,
senior halfback, voted the "moat InspiraUonal"
Pelican player. Both boy are considered fine col
lege football prospects. More than 206 gridiron
fans Jammed Uie hotel banquet room last night
to hear the guest speaker of the evening. Jim
Aiken, head football coach at the University of
Oregon.
Republicans Veto Truman
Tax Plan In
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 UP Re
publicans today pasted a "file and
forget" tag on President Truman's
proposal for a "cost of living" cut
in income taxes balanced by a new
excess profits levy on corporations.
With even key congressional dem
ocrats showing little enthusiasm for
the White House plan, Uie majority
leadership signaled Instead for ac
tion on a measure by Rep. Knutson
(R-Mlnn.) to reduce income taxes
65.600.000.000 a year, mainly on a
percentage basis.
The bouse ways and means com
mittee which Knutson heads was
summoned to take up his bill to-
Doctors Fear
For Gandhi
NEW DELHI. Jan. 15 & Mo
handas K. Gandhi, In Uie third day
of his fast for communal peace In
India, was too weak today to attend
his usual prayer meeting, and his
doctors expressed concern over his
loss of weight. The four physicians
attending the aged spiritual leader
Issued this bulletin:
"Today Is the third day of Ma
hatma Gandhi's fast. He is natur
ally losing weight: weakness has
considerably Increased. He had to
be carried out to the bathroom in
an arm chair this morning. His
voice Is feeble.
"We once again appeal to his
friends and Uie public not to seek
interviews or darshan." (Darshan
means his public appearance, which
Hindus consider holy.)
Gandhi last night exhibited deep
worry over a new massacre In Mos
lem Pakistan.
A large crowd of refugees from
the pun jab shouted "Let Gandhi
die I" and broke up a Sikh peace
procession near the Sikh temple in
the old city. The procession was to
have terminated at Birla house,
where Gandhi Is staying. Only a
handful of the Sikhs reached Birla
house, where they were told Qandhl
was too 1U to see them.
Red Ships Warn
Off Rescuers
TOKYO. Jan. 15 WV-A Japanese
ship officer was quoted In Tokyo
newspapers today as declaring two
Russian patrol vessels levelled deck
guns at non-Soviet rescue craft
which offered assistance to Uie
foundering Russian ship Dvlna last
week.
The officer, Uie first mate of the
Choun Maru, gave his account to
Japanese newsmen In Kushlro, Hok
kaido, where the Dvlna was towed
by a Russian ship. The mate's
name was not given.
United States navy and army au
thorities in Tokyo said Uiey had 116
Information on tho report.
On the morning ot January 10,
said Uie . first mate, Uie Russian
patrol boat on each side of the
listing Dvlna kept his ship and Uie
American-controlled but Japanese
manned Hugh M. Smith at a distance.
JANUARY IS, 1M
Telephone 8111
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Favor Of Own
morrow. Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder was Invited as the first
witness.
The president's proposal went be
fore congress late yesterday after
he conferred at Uie White House
with Reps. Doughton (D-N.C.I,
Cooper (D-Tenn.) and Dingell ID
Mich.), all members of the ways and
means committee.
To Uie surprise of many it was
Introduced by Dingell Instead of
Doughton, who is house manager of
tax matters tor his party and head
ed Uie committee when democrats
controlled congress.
"I wasnt ready to take a posi-
Uon," Doughton told reporters. "I
wasn't consulted before Uie bill was
drafted."
Senator George tD-Ga.), demo
cratic leader on tax legislation in
Uie senate, said "no comment" when
asked what he thought of it.
The measure would: -
1. Give each taxpayer a flat 840
a year reduction for himself and
each dependent dated back to Jan
uary 1. Thus a man with a wife
and two children would pay $160
less in 1948.- This would remove
10.300,000 persons from Uie tax rolls
and reduce the taxes ot 54,500,000
others.
3. Recoup Uie $3,200,000,000 loss of
federal revenue by a new 75 per
cent excess profits tax on corpora
tions. CorporaUons with profits ot
$50,000 or less would be exempt.
Others would receive an exempUon
ot 135 per cent of their average
1935-39 profit plus $50,000.
Josephus Daniels
Dies At 85
RALEIGH. N. C, Jan. 15 ("i
Josephus Daniels, Raleigh publisher,
died at 1:35 p. m. today. He was
85 years old.' .
The former secretary ot the navy
and one-time ambassador to Mexico
had been confined to his bed since
January 4 when he developed bron
chitis. Complications followed and pneu
monia set in. Hope for his recovery
had been abandoned early this week,
but the vitality with which he clung
to life amazed his physicians. -
Passes
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mer cabinet officer and ambassa
dor, died today at Raleigh, N. C.
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Petrillo May
Face T-H Law
WASHINGTON, . Jan. "15 VP)
Rep. Hartley (R-N. J.) declared to
day that even it the Lea act won't
work against James C. Petrillo, "I'm
satisfied Uiat the Taft-Hartley bill
will " ' ; , .
Congress passed the Lea act ex
prtssl) to prevent Petrillo from re
quiring radio stations to employ,
more members of his American Fed
eration of Musicians than Uie sta
tions say they need.
Federal Judge J. Walter LaBuy
acquitted Petrillo in Chicago yester
day ot a charge that he violated the
act by trying to force a radio sta
tion to hire three extra phonograph
record librarians.
One section of the Taft-Hartley
act says It Is an unfair labor prac
tice for a union to make an em
ployer pay. or try to make him pay,
"for services which are not per
formed or not to be performed."
If that does not fill the ' bill
Hartley said, congress should put
unions under the anU-trust laws.
Blast Rips
Chair Plant
CHICAGO, Jan. 15 0P An ex
plosion blew out the north wall of
a furniture company building to
day, dumping furniture into a street
and trapping an undetermined
number of persons in the wreckage.
Two persons were Injured and
were taken to Henrotin hospitaL
The four-story building at 619 N.
La Salle street was occupied by the
Provus Brothers Furniture com
pany. Four floors of the building
collapsed into Ontario street.
March Of Dimes Drive
Starts In County Today
Today marked the start ot thai
1948 March of Dimes campaign In
Kiamath county and throughout
the nation. An office has been es
tablished, contact are being made
and workers are campaigning to
make this year's polio drive surpass
the 1947 goal of $8000.
One-half of the total donation
will remain In Klamath county, and
the rest will go to the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
to be used for research and epidem
ic Insurance." In case of polio epi
demics, such as the one in Idaho
this year, the Insurance fund Is
available to stricken communities
for their fight against the disease.
The Klamath county chapter' of
fice has been set up In the lobby
of : the Wlllard hotel, with Dorl
Thompson, secretary. The telephone
number Is 7334.
Letters containing tickets to the
January 31 dance, climax or the
drive, will be mailed to over 5000
county people. Volunteer are
needed to help stuff envelopei with
GOP's Plan
Big Relief
Fund Slash
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 0P it.
retary of tbe Army Royall told sena
tors today that the alternaUve to
European recovery plan may be
drafting men for military service.
Royall made Uie statement to the
senate foreign relations eommlttaa '
today In response to questions from
Chairman Vandenberg (R.-Mlch.)
and Senator Lodge (R.-Moas.)
The army secretary testified yes
terday that nnleas the recovery plan,
is accepted, the army and Its budtet
will have to be "measurably and Im
mediately" increased.
Asked how this can be accom
plished, Royall said either through
an Increase In voluntary enlistments,
which he said is doubtful, or "some
method of (elective service."
Only Draft Left '
It w assume that voluntary en
listments have not produced a
many men a necessary, that leave
only the draft. Lodge commented.
Royall replied that this la correct.
In other words. Lodge aald. w
have the alternaUve of the foreign
recovery plan, or "else going back
to the draft."
Royall said thl is the "lorleal
conclusion" unless aonw . way eaa
be found through Increased com
pensation or some other mean.
Secretary of Defense ForreataL
meanwhile, told the hoase-forelga
affairs committee the recovery pro
gram cannot Be construed aa -a
threat against any nation.'
Senator Ball (R.-Mlnn.) predicted
congress will make a "sizable" cut In
the $8,800,000,000 asked by the ad.
ministration tor the first 16 month
of operation.
Ball said he thinks most republi
can lawmakers share this view de
spite Secretary of 8tate Marshall's
insistence that the amount la a
"precision" figure.
CriUcfxinr what he termed tha
cabinet officer' effort to aanam
a "manU of infallibility," Ball, s
member of the senate foreign rela
tion committee, told reporter H la
generally conceded that Marshall
"is a good soldier."
"But," Ball added, "his Infallibil
ity as an international strategist
might be quesUoned In view of the
tact that he was one of the top ad
visers In the Yalta, Teheran and
Potsdam (Big Three) confereneaa.
where many of the blunders which
nave contributed to the present in
ternational crisis were made." '
Ball said he hopes the state de
partment will submit "more speoifla
projects designed to increase Eur
ope's producUon of coal. iteeL food
and transportation."
Weather Here
Stays Warm
Pussywillows were turning out and
no wonder with a maximum of that
past 34 hours of 46 degrees despite
Uie 19 minimum registered between
6:30 and 7:30 a. m. today.
Clear, bright days have been on
the weatherman's menu the past
week with more of Uie same prom
ised Klamath folks who have been
reveling In unseasonable warmth
and sunshine since early January.
It was cold elsewhere In the stato
with a minus 3 -degree temperature
reported on the Weston-Elgin high
way in Eastern Oregon. Thli waa
Uie only below zero reading but
other sections said it was cold. It
was 10 above at Uie Santiam Junc
tion; 33 at Odell lake where packed
snow and Ice exist from Salt Creek
tunnel to Odell butte; 13 degree on
the Greensprlngs highway, and 10
degrees above on Sun mountain.
Truman To Ask -Oil
Conservation
WASHINGTON, Jan. IS ( Th
interior department said today that
President Truman within the next
34 hours la expected to direct rigor
ous conservation ot petroleum nip
plies by all government agencies to
help relieve the critical fuel short
age. Secretary ot Interior Krug, mean
while, called upon the publio for
an immediate 16 per cent reducUon
in the use. of gasoline, fuel oil and
natural gas.
Max W. Ball, director ot the In
terior department's oil and gas dl"
vision, made the statement about
the expected White House directive.
tickets. Mr. Paul Buck, county
drive chairman, asks that any wom
en Interested in helping meet at
the parish hall ot St, Paul'l Episco
pal church any time Between io
a m. and 4 p. m. Friday.
Youngsters In the city and coun
ty school are being given eard
which hold dimes, and are aaked
to give as much as they can toward
filling the cards. Member ot the
Klamath County Quota club ara
handling distribution of coin con
tainers In restaurants and ttore
around town.
Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Olrlt
will be In charge of booths In down
town stores Saturday, and Boy
Scouts will distribute posters In thf
business district.
Members of the Toastm asters and
Toastmla tress clubs have offered
their time In giving ipeeche on be
half of the drive at meetings ot
other organisation. Information
on this phase of the drive may be
had by callln March of Dimes bead
quarters. (Sea picture ea rags I)
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